Originally Posted by
hotpot1
I was thinking of doing something similar. I'd be in Egypt anyway, and would either fly from Cairo to Khartoum, and maybe hang out a few days and look around, or do something more adventurous like take the ferry from Aswan Egypt to Wadi Halfa, Sudan then a train to KRT. But with a US Passport, getting a Sudanese tourist visa... not so easy.
Not easy but not impossible. There are reports that many people get their Sudan visa issued in CAI or ADD rather than their home countries as the process there is much easier. I don't have any first hand experience but I would look into this possibility.